Re: decision on moving core packages to ELPA; also move to obsolete?

[Stefan Monnier]

> But that addition of a directory (or maybe more than one) to
> package-directory-list -- that bit still needs to be done, for this to
> really work, right?

Of course, as in the patch below, for example.


        Stefan


diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
index b7c48dfd3f..64a2acac3e 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ package-directory-list
       (and (stringp f)
            (equal (file-name-nondirectory f) "site-lisp")
            (push (expand-file-name "elpa" f) result)))
+    (push (expand-file-name "../elpa" data-directory) result)
     (nreverse result))
   "List of additional directories containing Emacs Lisp packages.
 Each directory name should be absolute.